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Microsoft isn?t including a headset with Xbox One units, though this is something that consumers would be very much interested in seeing.
There is one encouraging piece of news. Microsoft does seem to be aware of the feedback, as product planning manager Albert Penello confirmed on Twitter that the company is ?looking into? the possibility of bundling Xbox One with a headset.
Penello wrote on Twitter:
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Can India win again in 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup!
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 was officially announced mid day today. Cricket lovers from Indian sub-continent have been keenly waiting for the news as World Cup winner Indian team will compete in the matches held in Australia and New Zealand.
Minister for Sport and Recreation, Graham Annesley, today announced the NSW Government had successfully reached an agreement with the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Local Organising Committee which will provide NSW fans with many opportunities to see the world?s best cricketers in action.
?Sydney has earned a global reputation as a destination for major international sporting events which add significant value to the NSW economy,? Mr Annesley said.
?The ICC Cricket World Cup will be the biggest sporting event in the world in 2015 and will provide another bonanza for sports fans and businesses in NSW.
?Over one billion people are expected to watch the series on television, and the NSW Government has secured not only a number of major pool games, but also a quarter-final, and a semi-final.? In the lead-up to the tournament proper, NSW will also host a series of warm up matches at other venues including in Western Sydney.
?The Sydney Cricket Ground is without question one of the world?s most iconic sporting arenas and will be at its pristine best following the $186 million redevelopment which is due for completion in time for the 2014 Ashes Series.
?With the additional seating available the record for a one-day crowd may well be exceeded.
?NSW will host more games than any other State, featuring major Cricketing nations including South Africa, England, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, West Indies and Australia.
?The major semi-final will be played at the SCG on Thursday 26 March to determine one of the two finalists,? Mr Annesley added.
All games staged in NSW will be day/night fixtures and include the following -
??????????South Africa v West Indies ? Friday 27 Feb 2015
??????????Australia v Sri Lanka ? Sunday 8 March
??????????England v Qualifier 2 ? Fri 13 March
??????????Quarter Final 1 ? Wednesday 18 March
??????????Semi Final ? Thursday 26 March
Full details of on the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 and tournament qualifying are available at?www.cricketworldcup.com, where fans can also register for ticketing news and other tournament updates.? Ticketing information including tiers and packages will be released later this year.
The?ICC Cricket World Cup?2015 will feature 42 pool matches, 21 in Australia, 21 in New Zealand. Played in 14 host cities, 7 in each country.
See the link to information on matches for venues, fixtures and ticket bookings: ?http://www.icc-cricket.com/cricket-world-cup/fixtures
Pool A is England, Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Qualifier 2, and Qualifier 3.
Pool B will consist of South Africa, India, the West Indies, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Qualifier 1 (Ireland) and Qualifier 4.
The?ICC Cricket World Cup?2015 quarter finals will be played in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Wellington. Semi finals in Auckland and Sydney and the historic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) will host the final.
India will complete its group fixtures against Zimbabwe at Eden Park, Auckland, on 14 March. In the group, India will also play South Africa (in Melbourne on 22 February), Qualifier 4 (in Perth on 28 February), West Indies (in Perth on 6 March) and Ireland* (in Hamilton on 10 March).
Looking ahead to the tournament, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said: ?It only seems like yesterday that we won the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in front of a passionate and supportive home crowd.
?World Cup is a very special event for every cricketer because it only takes place every four years. Having tasted success in Mumbai in 2011, we?ll be working very hard to retain it.
?I?m keenly looking forward to the tournament and confident that we?ll do well. Our recent victory in the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 has provided the team with a lot of confidence, and I am sure this experience will help us in our preparations for the World Cup in 2015.?
The tournament opens on 14 February with co-hosts Australia and New Zealand playing their first matches on the opening day of the tournament in front of their home crowds, while the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) will host the final on 29 March.
India are ranked number one in the world in the latest Reliance ICC ODI Rankings. Up until now ICC Cricket World Cup?s ?all-time leading run scorer (2278 runs in 45 matches) is Sachin Tendulkar.
India has been the ICC Cricket World Cup winner in 1983 and then in 2011 by defeating Sri Lanka by six wickets in the final in Mumbai. Let us see if India can do it again in 2015!
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Perhaps taking a page from Apple's playbook, Google has incorporated the ideas pioneered first by Swype and then SwiftKey and rolled outtheir own keyboard app. The app includes Swype-sorry, "gesture typing," predictive text, multiple language and keyboard support, and a unique feature: Floating Preview. While Google's low-cost (free) alternative keyboard is perfectly serviceable, it left me wanting more.
Starting Up
Unless it was shipped standard on your Android device (as is the case for several Samsung phones), you'll have to configure any keyboard app once you download it from Google Play. Google Keyboard walks you through the process, and the typically clean Google-esque screens make short work of it.
Google deserve some credit for making a single app that works on both tablets and phones?SwiftKey has separate apps for phones and tablets.
During set up, activating multiple languages in Google Keyboard confused me. First, I had to uncheck "use device language," and then select others from a list of 56 languages which was otherwise greyed out. These appear to be non-Latin text keyboards, though it was unclear to me.
Further customization is found in the Settings, which you access by tapping the app's desktop shortcut. Settings covers the normal gamut of options, though was notably missing multiple keyboard skins and had no alternative keyboard layouts like SwiftKey's split keyboard.
Also missing was a social integration component. With SwiftKey or Swype, you can let the app scan your Twitter, email, or Facebook to pick out words and patterns of speech unique to you.
I did like that Google Keyboard not only builds a custom dictionary of words, but allows you to add words from within the app. Other keyboard apps don't allow you to directly interact with your dictionary, except through the keyboard itself. Google makes this process much easier.
Perhaps in a swipe (pun?) at Apple, Google Keyboard does the double-space-bar-as-a-period trick.
You can also add alternate dictionaries from a list of 25 languages and formats. Again, I was confused about the dictionary/non-Latin keyboard dichotomy, which the other keyboard apps handle better. Also, both Swype and SwiftKey support over 60 languages, and SwiftKey was particularly well set up for switching seamlessly between languages.
Writing With Google Keyboard
There's little aesthetically different between Google's keyboard and the stock Android keyboard you see on most phones, with thick white letters on generously spaced chiclet keys. SwiftKey's default keyboard uses longer, distinctively shaped keys that stand out among other drab keyboards.
Taking a page from SwiftKey, Google Keyboard shows three suggested words above the keyboard as you type. Also like SwiftKey, Google Keyboard shows three next word suggestions, intended to save you the trouble of typing. This can speed up your typing quite a bit, but it didn't feel as smart as SwiftKey. Google Keyboard didn't appear to adapt to my writing, and the company does not list it as a feature of the app. That's disappointing, since I was really impressed with SwiftKey's adaptive language learning.
Google Keyboard cleverly includes a much larger list of possible words, which you access by tapping and holding an ellipses symbol below the center word suggestion. I liked this much better than Swype's ribbon of possible words.
Google Keyboard also supports "gesture typing," more commonly known as Swyping, where you drag your finger between letters to spell out words. SwiftKey called this feature Flow, and included it in their last major update. I actually thought Google's gestures felt tighter, and more responsive than other keyboard apps.?
As you move your thumb between letters, a thick Google-blue trail follows in your digit's wake. Once you release your thumb, the center word is placed in the text. To start over without adding text, simply drag your thumb off the keyboard. While Swyping, Google Keyboard displays its top three suggestions, though you can only select them as corrections after the fact.
Floating Preview is Google's main innovation with Swype-style input. While moving across the keyboard, a grey window hovers near your thumb showing the word Google thinks you want. Since my eye generally follows my thumb, I always knew what to expect and this was a big improvement over Swype and SwiftKey which often felt like blind luck typing.
Swype came pre-bundled with their Dragon dictation software as well as a handwriting recognition option. Google ignores handwriting, and its presence is not missed, though it does include a button to activate its built-in dictation software.
Google Does Good, Not Great
I think that Google sees Swype-style input as a major differentiator between Android and a radically changing iOS. If this is a flag-ship feature, Google probably wants to make sure every single Android user can get a hold of it. That's why they've brought this free, good-not-great app to market in the first place. Expect it to be standard in future versions of the OS.
And frankly, that's a good thing. Though it seems strange at first, Swyping (or whatever you want to call it) is a great way to interact with your phone and feels like the first major innovation in smartphone user design since pinch and zoom.
Android users should absolutely down some kind of keyboard app. Google's free offering is perfectly fine if you don't need extra features. Swype is feature laden, and even includes a mobile version of Dragon Dictate and cloud syncing for your dictionaries. SwiftKey puts big emphasis on adaptive learning, and felt better suited for users who frequently use multiple languages. Choose your weapon.
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People rescue garment workers trapped under rubble at the Rana Plaza building after it collapsed, in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka in this April 24, 2013 file photo. Sources says President Obama will suspend U.S. trade benefits to Bangladesh.
President Barack Obama is expected to announce on Thursday that the United States is suspending trade benefits for Bangladesh after two tragedies in a year in the country's garment sector that killed more than 1,200 workers, a congressional source said.
U.S. trade officials have said they expected Obama to announce a decision on the matter by the end of June. The U.S. Trade Representative's office did not have an immediate comment on whether an announcement would come Thursday.
Suspending Bangladesh from the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences program would increase U.S. duties on an array of products the Asian country exports to the United States, such as tobacco, sporting equipment, porcelain china, plastic products and a small amount of textile products.
But it would not directly affect Bangladesh's main export, clothing, since garments are not eligible for duty cuts under the GSP program, which was created in 1976 to help economic development in the world's poorest countries and to reduce import costs for U.S. companies.
In 2012, Bangladesh was spared about $2 million in U.S. duties on about $35 million worth of goods under GSP, but it paid about $732 million in U.S. duties on $4.9 billion of clothing exports not covered by the program, according to Ed Gresser, a trade analyst with the GlobalWorks Foundation.
Still, Obama's decision would be a repudiation of working conditions in Bangladesh following the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in April that killed 1,129 people and the Tazreen factory fire in November that killed 112. Clothing for several American and European retailers is made in Bangladesh.
It also could influence the European Union's decision whether to suspend trade benefits for Bangladesh, which would have far more impact since Bangladesh's clothing and textiles exports receive duty-free treatment there.
The EU imported roughly 9.2 billion euros ($12.13 billion) of goods from Bangladesh last year, according to data from the EU's executive, the European Commission.
Clothing and textile products ranging from towels and bedding accounted for almost 93 percent of those goods.
EU officials have threatened to kick Bangladesh out of the program - a process that could take more than a year - unless it improves worker safety conditions.
Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.
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